Citation: Alice Hospodková, Ladislav Svoboda, Petr Praus. Dependence of photocatalytic activity of Zn_xCd_1-xS quantum dot composition[J]. Chinese Journal of Catalysis, ;2015, 36(3): 328-335. doi: 10.1016/S1872-2067(14)60269-2 shu

Dependence of photocatalytic activity of Zn_xCd_1-xS quantum dot composition

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a Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i., CZ-16200 Prague 6, Czech Republic;

Corresponding author: Petr Praus,
Received Date: 26 November 2014
Available Online: 26 November 2014

Aqueous colloidal dispersions containing Zn_xCd_1-xS quantum dots (QDs) of different x compositions were prepared by precipitating zinc and cadmium acetates with sodium sulphide, in the presence of a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide stabilizer. Ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy was used to determine the transition energies of the QDs, which in turn were used to calculate their sizes, which depended on their composition. The QD size decreased with increasing Zn content. The photocatalytic activity of the Zn_xCd_1-xS QDs was studied by the decomposition of methylene blue under ultraviolet irradiation, at a maximum intensity at 365 nm (3.4 eV). Three different photocatalytic activity regions were observed, which depended on the Zn content. The quantum levels of the QDs could be excited by incident irradiation, and influenced the resulting photocatalytic activity. Maximum photocatalytic activity was achieved at x=0.6, where the QD transition energy was equal to the irradiation photon energy. The photocatalytic efficiency of the QDs depended on their surface area and arrangement of quantum levels, because of the quantum size effect.
- Quantum dot,
- Zn_x,
- Cd_1-x,
- SPhotocatalysis
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